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The fintech company will match every dollar the Raising Malawi foundation collects in a month-long drive in honor of Madonna’s birthday.

Gold prices were under pressure on Wednesday as reports citing three people familiar with the internal deliberations revealed that the Trump administration is considering to raise its planned 10% tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods to 25%, pushing the dollar higher.

Smart Dubai and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts partnered to leverage the distributed ledger technology (DLT) for the judicial system. The two entities plan to develop the world’s first “Court of the Blockchain.” Under the new project, the government-backed organizations want to find solutions on how to improve verification procedures in the court judgments for cross-border enforcement, DIFC said in a press release on Monday.

Bitcoin and other major virtual currencies prices edged down on Monday as Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) followed Apple’s footsteps to ban on-device mining apps on its Play Store.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again rejected to give the green light to the listing of a Bitcoin-related exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposed by the Winklevoss brothers. The regulator, which initially disapproved the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust in March 2017, now confirmed its decision in a 92-page filing, citing manipulation concerns.

Having recently joined the Bitfi team, John McAfee decided to make the bold statement that its wallet is the world’s first unhackable device. After receiving a lot of pushback for his words, he doubled down on Twitter and decided to personally offer $100,000 to the person who manages to break its security.

Cryptocurrencies have turned out to be the lifeline hotels in Iran were looking for after the severe American sanctions on the country’s banking system.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) continues to make strides in stomping out bad actors in the crypto space, with a case it recently brought resulting in a hefty fine for the offender.

As we expected in our previous review, the National Bank of Ukraine had to come out with an auction to sell currency to smooth fluctuations in the market, as representatives of the regulator often like to say.